Word: messe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...insists (and camp appearances bear out) that morale has risen immensely since the first days, when depression-sore enrollees refused by the thousands to take the CCC oath of allegiance, demolished a mess hall and destroyed trees at Camp Dix, N. J. But the rate of desertions is still high: 48,483 in fiscal 1938; 1,741 last December...
Massachusetts. Leverett Saltonstall, who came in after eight Democratic years, inherited an Augean mess from the Hurley-Curley administrations. He declared that no man who was doing a decent, necessary job need fear the ax, then proceeded to go after other jobholders (see p. 40). Of more concern to Massachusetts was his announced conviction that despite all economies the State tax on cities & towns would have to be upped from a record $17,000,000 last year to perhaps...
Professor Weigl and his wife (who have already had typhus, are now immune). After a ten-day incubation period the lice are dissected. About 150 intestines are placed in a sterilized mortar with a few drops of glycerin and carbolic acid (to assure sterility), and Dr. Weigl pounds the mess with a sterilized pestle. Result: one dose of immunizing typhus vaccine. At this rate, said Marianne, Professor Weigl makes less than one hundred life-saving doses a year...
...frankness of this engraved announcement titillated Washington last week. It indicated that the result of Franklin Roosevelt's one Purge success was to supply Washington with one more high-powered lobbyist. For the rest, that success looked singularly hollow: the important House Rules Committee was in such a mess that the New Deal gave up hope of organizing it before Congress met this week. Illinois' old Representative Adolph Joachim Sabath to whom chairmanship of the committee was scheduled to pass, by seniority, because of recalcitrant Mr. O'Connor's defeat, faced an unhappy situation. Of three...
...started it by offering a complete set of Dickens for a few shillings. Beaverbrook was in Berlin. He hurried back and called a parley of the Press Lords at the Savoy Hotel. All were ready to compromise, but Beaverbrook had decided to rub his colleagues' noses in the mess they had made. As he put it: "I drew my sword and swore not to place it back in its sheath until I had punished them...